Remember the originals… X-Factor: Forever #1
(7 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)In case you didn’t know, there was an X-Factor before Peter David and Madrox turned it into a Mutant Detective Agency… So Louise Simonson and Dan Panosian are here to remind us with a 5 issue mini-series.
If you were first introduced to the 5 original X-Men by X-Men: First Class, then you most likely weren’t even a gleam in yo daddy’s eye when Jean Grey was discovered in a cocoon at the bottom of Jamaica Bay in 1986 and it was revealed she wasn’t actually the cosmic entity who died as the Phoenix. If so, you missed out on the original X-Factor, which reunited the 5 founding X-Men as a group of professional mutant-busters the public could call if they had a mutant problem. This era added many elements to the x-mythos, including the birth of Nathan Summers a.k.a. Cable and the sequence of events that sent him to the future.
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Original X-Factor scribe Louise Simonson has teamed with artist Dan Panosian to bring us new adventures of the original dream-team as they return to fight the one threat that’s haunted them since the day they took on the X-Factor name. Join legendary X-scribe Louise Simonson as she reunites with the title and characters she made famous for an epic in the FOREVER tradition!
As with Chris Claremonts’ X-Men: Forever (a recent revisiting of his run on X-Men that might have been more interesting if confined to a mini), X-Factor: Forever picks up where the Simonson’s 5 year run on the title run left off. Evidently this is one of Marvel’s new traditions… Add a Forever to the title and let a former writer go wild.
via CBR
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02/08/2010 at 3:57 am
I hope this isn’t as awful as X-Men Forever which is one of the WORST comics I have ever read! Every month I try to read Forever and I want to just scream from agony…..the designs on the characters are horrendous….Gambit suddenly became totally unappealing and VERY UNSEXY….everyone has to talk talk talk talk talk….even if they walk down the street they have to “say” they are walking down the street….eww Jean making out with Beast!……the art does not help….it is not awful art but just not a good style for an “X” book….and poor Rogue….she looks so homely now…..everything is just wrong with the book…..as for XFactor, I never really liked the original 5 so I will pass…..unless Maddy comes back
…..or the Askani…
02/08/2010 at 4:49 am
I gave up on X-Men Forever after 3 or so issues. I think the problem laid more with the fact that CLaremont has lost his touch than with the Forever concept. Claremont’s Exiles was one of the most atrocious attempts at a comic I’ve read and that thing he did with a band of future x-offspring was even less appealing. I think more of Louise Simonson.
02/08/2010 at 2:55 pm
Claremont ….yes….his first 30 issues on X-Treme I really loved…..Sage was awesome….the Storm/Emma teamup was great….the “Murder at Xavier’s” was really great….when the Mutant Town storyline started and I really really hated it….the awful artwork didn’t help when Rogue started to look like Sage.etc……then Claremont came on Uncanny…..the Fury storyline with Brian, Rachel & Nightcrawler reunion was great!…..even the New Excalibur reunion with Kitty/Rachel/Psylocke/Brian was great…then suddenly Claremont decided to destroy Rachel (my all time fav X-Men) by making her a total RETARD….she would fall down stairs….get knock out EVERY combat….forget to even use her powers half the time….then the WORST crime EVER! He turned her into a fracken DINOSAUR!!!! WTF! Then he gave her the AWFUL “Marvel Girl” name/costume which made her a total Jean rip off……Claremont’s work on New Exiles was AWFUL!……honestly he has really fallen from grace……
okay done with my rant